Small Arcs of Larger Circles Quotes

“Short-term reward, long-term damage: greed over curiosity.”
― Nora Bateson, Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing through Other Patterns

“Treating symptoms, teaching to the test, gathering statistics… all of these forms of engagement have something in common… blindness to the complexity of the issue being addressed.”
― Nora Bateson, Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing through Other Patterns

“Finding where exactly the outside world ends and I begin—is not so easy.”
― Nora Bateson, Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing through Other Patterns

“Life is not divisible into the departments of a university, nor is our understanding of life greatly increased by standard research practices, which tend to pull their ‘subject’ matter out of the larger contexts they exist in, to facilitate focused study.”
― Nora Bateson, Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing through Other Patterns

“Mutual learning happens in the entropy; we need the confusion to release the new.”
― Nora Bateson, Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing through Other Patterns

“As I see it, the advances in scientific thought come from a combination of loose and strict thinking, and this combination is the most precious tool of science. Gregory Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind”
― Nora Bateson, Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing through Other Patterns

“Indeed, the responsibility for the world the child grows to understand lies in the collective impressions that the village provides.”
― Nora Bateson, Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing through Other Patterns

“The prescribed mode of thinking that is generated by our educational systems is not conducive to the sort of thinking that new generations should have access to.”
― Nora Bateson, Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing through Other Patterns

“The complex system that is the body is a field of ways of knowing, all of which work together ecologically to provide the necessary information.”
― Nora Bateson, Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing through Other Patterns

“Good questions do not have answers at all, let alone right or wrong ones.”
― Nora Bateson, Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing through Other Patterns

“But ask anyone, such is the nature of relationship. We carry each other’s pain. We learn together, or we do not learn.”
― Nora Bateson, Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing through Other Patterns

“Can the potential isolation of living on an island of our own frame of reference be banished by simple concurrences that become the currency of our conversation?”
― Nora Bateson, Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing through Other Patterns

“To lock down the delicate filigree of life in explanation is to lose it, but not to see it is disastrous.”
― Nora Bateson, Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing through Other Patterns

“We are water. We are air. We grow, we bloom, we seed, we wilt, we die. There is a false separation between humanity and nature. Of”
― Nora Bateson, Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing through Other Patterns